Though many Monks use vi, SOPW is not the appropriate place for a question strictly about vi.

If this were a perl question... and if your output illustration reflects your actual desire ("# 1 aba baba Cheers" does not match "how can i write regular exp to add new line in between # and 1."):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
# 800208 

my $test;
while ( <DATA> ) {
    $test = $_;
    if ( $test =~ /#1 aba baba/ ) {
        chomp $test;
        print "$test Cheers\n";
    } else {
        print "$test";
    }
}

__DATA__
#1 aba baba
#1 bsdb dbbsd
#1 sdh hsds
#1 aba baba
#2 aba baba

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In reply to Re: (OT) Regular Expression by ww
in thread (OT) Regular Expression by Sun751

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